by the Referee Review Team 1: Referee Appointments and Results matchweek 12 Manchester United vs. Arsenal [1-1] Referee – Andre Marriner 1st Assistant Referee – Simon Beck 2nd Assistant Referee – Andy Garratt Fourth Official – Michael Oliver Crystal Palace vs. Manchester City [1-2] Referee – Robert Madley 1st Assistant Referee – Mick McDonough 2nd …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Edward Nketiah was born on May 30 1999 and is a 17 year old Striker. A lifetime Gooner, he joined Arsenal three years ago as a 14 year old schoolboy after being released by Chelsea. At the start of last season he became a first year scholar in our academy and is …
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By Tony Attwood Can you imagine what the response would have been if it had all gone wrong last night? Arsene Wenger had the choice: go with a full blooded first team selection and not only aim for a win but hope that PSG stumbled, or put more back up players into the team and …
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By Walter Broeckx A number of changes before the match. With our destiny to finish top of the group not in our own hands something that I really think can be done. A few players getting some rest and some player getting the chance to play at the highest level is something that I surely …
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By Tony Attwood So before we go any further time to look at the goal scorers Rank Player Club Goals 1 Diego Costa Chelsea 11 Alexis Sánchez Arsenal 3 Sergio Agüero Manchester City 10 Alexis has also got a couple of goals in Europe. So as we look forward to tonight’s game it is …
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ARSENAL vs. BOURNEMOUTH COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 13 DATE: 27th November 2016 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Mike Jones 1st LINESMAN: Adrian Holmes 2nd LINESMAN: Mark Scholes 4th OFFICIAL: Graham Scott First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 00:17 Adam Smith …
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By Tony Attwood Every football journalist and most of the bloggettas have told us throughout November that ARSENAL ALWAYS DO BADLY IN NOVEMBER. I wrote it in capitals just in case you hadn’t caught it before. After all it must be very important to know this because they have told us over and over …
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By Walter Broeckx The only thing that is predictable when it comes to football is…that it is unpredictable. Now anyone that follows football a bit knows this but for some strange reason the people who are paid to follow football or who make a living out of following it and writing about it …..tend to …
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Consistently wrong but never in doubt by Don McMahon While surfing various Arsenal and Football websites this week I was impressed and astonished by the number of spurious and unsolicited, unsupported and undeniably wrong posts that misnamed supporters feel it is their democratic right to publish. There are numerous memes that filter through the Ethernet …
Read More “Attending a football match doesn’t make them experts anymore than standing in a garage makes them mechanics.”
By Tony Attwood “Did the new stadium force Ogbonna to misplace a pass that handed Arsenal an early lead? Was the new stadium responsible for West Ham’s half-baked recruitment over the summer?” These questions are posed by the Daily Telegraph, and their conclusion (without of course considering any evidence, for that is never their way) …
Read More “Just how much impact did the stadium have in Arsenal’s 5-1 win on Saturday?”
By Tony Attwood The English papers (other than the Sunday Times) are making little of the financial scandal that erupted across Europe yesterday – perhaps because they were not part of the group that put the research together, perhaps because in their superior manner they think their readers won’t be able to follow the details. …
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By Walter Broeckx No it isn’t my birthday this weekend. But my second oldest son is celebrating his birthday today. And as we were invited with the rest of the family I couldn’t do my match report. My family knows me of course and so they arranged that we would have our meal before the …
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By Bulldog Drummond. It appears that each UK taxpayer has paid about £27 towards giving the club previously known as West Ham a new home for free. Given the number of taxpayers in the country, that is quite an alarming figure. But of course we just get on with it, and let the government treat …
Read More “WHU v Arsenal. The teams, the tactics, the injuries, the cost.”
By Bulldog Drummond Interesting reports today that even though Héctor Bellerín and Mathieu Debuchy, are out injured Carl Jenkinson won’t play at the Tax Payers Stadium (TPS) because Mr Wenger feels Carl is suffering a crisis of confidence. Traditionally psychological reasons for not playing players have been scorned by the pundits and sneered at by …
Read More “State Aid United v Arsenal: no Jenkinson, no Santi, and the problem of moving home”
By Tony Attwood Arsene Wenger has established his most formidable squad for five years – Arsenal will win honours So says Steve Stammers in the Daily Mirror, and just in case you don’t quite believe it and think it is a spoof he goes on… The Gunners crashed out of the League Cup in midweek …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Well last week Mike Jones displayed his form from the previous two seasons rather than his much better form from the Premier League this season – must have been an Arsenal game I guess. This week our officials are:- Referee – Craig Pawson – Age 37 from South Yorkshire and FIFA accredited …
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By Tony Attwood Commander BJ Harrington, of the Metropolitan Police, one of the police’s most senior football match officers has been talking about the difficulties of keeping law and order outside the Tax Payers Stadium. He did this in giving evidence to the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee, saying, “If you are intent on disorder, you …
Read More “Three times as many arrests at Arsenal as at State Aid Utd? Up to a point Ms Copper”
By Tony Attwood Santi is out for three months, during which time he will have an operation and now the news has broken the media is packed with speculation, because speculation is what the media does worst (at least in terms of predicting the future). In essence there are three possibilities over what to do. …
Read More “Santi Cazorla out for three months. Now what?”
A kinder Arsenal world…….Don McMahon Recent UK media and press criticism of the Arsenal, after a few uninspired ties and lacklustre performances in the EPL and the CL, exaggerated and exacerbated by our very own aaa trolls, brought me to a point where I questioned the sanity of the aforementioned accomplices. I have adapted an …
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By Tony Attwood There is a Marina Hyde article in the Guardian today about the sexual abuse of footballers. It is an article which is so powerful, so insightful, and so very much getting to the key point, that if it would not be a breach of copyright I would reproduce it here. Instead, here …
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By Walter Broeckx Lots of changed of course in the starting line up. In fact apart from the man with 3 lungs Elneny we have 10 other players compared to last weekend. So here is the team that started: Martinez, Jenkinson, Holding, Gabriel, Gibbs, Coquelin, Elneny, Reine-Adelaide, Ramsey, Iwobi, Lucas On the beach today: Macey, …
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By Tony Attwood So for the second match in a row we play the team in 10th position. Here’s the home and away table Home Away W D L F A W D L F A GD Pt 1 Chelsea 6 0 1 20 4 4 1 1 9 6 +19 31 2 Liverpool 5 …
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By Walter Broeckx I don’t know what is the next step after madness in English. Bonkers? Crazy? I think someone has to invent a new word to describe the craziness that has taken over at Fick FUFA headquarters over the years. If you thought that after having had two summers with no rest at all …
Read More “Come on Germany, just say no”
By Tony Attwood Lucas Perez is being tipped to play again in the League Cup quarter-final against Southampton tonight; Olivier Giroud has an injury – either hamstring or groin depending on the source of information. The Giroud injury is said not to be too serious and that omitting him tonight is just a precaution. Chuba …
Read More “Arsenal v Southampton: the preview, plus Bellerin’s quick recovery”
By Walter Broeckx I think it must have been 7 or 8 years ago I wrote on Untold that if you appointed me as the ref of a match between let us say Manchester United and a 3rd division team I maybe could force a win for the 3rd division team. I said “maybe” because …
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